emaringolo

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by emaringolo 3y ago
Many languages need constructors (and static methods) because the class is not an object. In Smalltalk the class is the sole instance of another class (MetaClass), so a "static method" becomes a "class-side" method. And
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by emaringolo 8y ago
These are commercial vendors, but there are industrial uses of Pharo itself, and as Pharo gets better a lot of companies are moving from their commercial dialects to Pharo. In particular from Cincom Smalltalk to Pharo.
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by emaringolo 8y ago
The syntax is similar, and for the most part, compatible. Pharo's syntax has a few extra extensions, but nothing incompatible. But Pharo's is inspired by Smalltalk, and I myself consider it Smalltalk, but the purpose of the detach
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by emaringolo 10y ago
I think it is the only language that enables a single individual to understand a big and complex system like the development environment itself.
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by emaringolo 10y ago
Do you still see an advantage of using Smalltalk (like Squeak/Pharo) as a general purpose language/tool to build software or do you think that most of its original ideas were somehow "taken" by other alternatives?
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by emaringolo 12y ago
Mi experience about real systems Dependency Management: Yes. Source code control: Yes (proprietary, file based/git) Continuous Integration: Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamCity Deployment: I'm aware of people using Docker and Ansible, and
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by emaringolo 12y ago
Excellent job guys. Kudos to the website designer too.
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by emaringolo 14y ago
Dolphin is stagnated since several years. It's a beatiful piece of Software, and the best Smalltalk Dialect in terms of native Windows integration. So good integration that its low level developer (Blair McGlashan) is working at Microsoft
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by emaringolo 14y ago
No, it doesn't. It is single process with "green threads". Same as node.js ;-)
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by emaringolo 14y ago
That depends a lot on your background and interests. But if you like dynamic languages, and being highly productive with a "years ahead" development environment, then Pharo is a good alternative. Many of the features you see added today to
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by emaringolo 14y ago
True, the Seaside home page looks outdated. But people is still using it, and it is under active development.
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by emaringolo 14y ago
It is the most recent release of a the Smalltalk based programming environment, Pharo. If you never heard of Smalltalk, you can google it. But as a summary I can tell you it is the father of Object-Oriented Programming, BitBlt, the Model-Vi
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by emaringolo 14y ago
It isn't fully functional, is it? The image from the CI opens with an STDOUT error. What's missing to have a "nice" (working?) configuration for Pharo 2.0?
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by emaringolo 14y ago
I haven't seen a bigger release for a Smalltalk dialect in the last several years. Great work!